[pl.] (old-fashioned or formal) your family or your relatives:
Marriage between close kin is prohibited.
compareKINDRED
seealsoNEXTOFKIN
IDIOMS see KITH
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for kin is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is kin a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, kin is tagged as noun.
Does kin appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — kin appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.